Ryan Reynolds has occasionally offered valuable parenting tips, including some important advice he got from Shawn Levy. Earlier this year, Reynolds, who shares four children with wife Blake Lively, said Levy’s wisdom on why kids should know when their parents lose in life “really stuck” with him.
The actor mentioned that Levy told him how “people tend to only talk about their wins.” However, the latter also opined why it is vital for one’s children “to know that you lose.” Now, Ryan Reynolds is disclosing more about his and Lively’s “soft” parenting style contrary to the “improvised militia” he grew up with.
Ryan Reynolds shares valuable parenting tip
In a previous interview with People, Ryan Reynolds candidly shared a valuable parenting tip he got from Shawn Levy that “stuck with me forever.” He stated that Levy told him how it is important for children to know when their parents are failing in life.
“You don’t get what you want all the time. Something you worked on really hard didn’t work,” Reynolds said. “You feel like you said something embarrassing today, you did something that didn’t sit right with you.” He continued that children need to “see that” instead of just hearing, “‘Oh Dad nailed it.’ Because you lose so much more than you win.”
More recently, Ryan Reynolds weighed in on his and his wife Blake Lively’s “soft” parenting style to his childhood. The “Deadpool & Wolverine” actor revealed that he “didn’t know how to process things” that he experienced as he grew up with a “scarcity mindset.” He then claimed that it wasn’t the same with his children. “I have 4 kids and so far, none of them seem to have that [scarcity mindset], partly because they were born on ‘Easy Street,'” said the father-of-four.
Ryan Reynolds further asserted that the parenting style is so “different” and “soft” today compared to the “improvised militia” he grew up with. The 47-year-old claims he doesn’t even “yell” at his children, adding, “Now it’s like, I can go look at all my resources for parenting and remind myself how to be perfectly compassionate.”
Reynolds and Lively have four children — James, Inez, Betty, and their youngest Olin.
